Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the most 'inland' city in the world. Urumqi is also a very modern city, sporting its share of new skyscrapers, highways and gourmet restaurants and luxury malls. Urumqi is a city where multiethnic groups of people live in compact of mixed communities. They are the Uygur, Han, Hui, Kazak, Mongolian, Kirgiz, Xibe, totally over 40 ethnic groups of people.